This FM 2014 Player Profile of Zakaria Bakkali shows a quick, skillful inside forward with great technical attributes. During our test save this kid missed out on 2 seasons of proper game time, so you should expect more than what the screenshots above show. Having said that Bakkali still developed 17 for dribbling, technique, off the ball movement, agility and pace. All those attributes show just how well he can move on the ball and the problems he could cause cutting inside from the left.

£8.5 million isn’t bad considering the kids talent. If you will invest the time in Bakkali’s development the he’s a must buy.

Zakaria Bakkali Age: 17 Position: AML/AMR/ST Role: inside forward / advanced playmaker / winger Club: PSV Nationality: Belgian Value: £1.6 million Price tag: £8.5 million (in patch 14.3) CA: 121 / PA: -9 (between 150-180) Zakaria Bakkali profile in 2013 (after starting new game, 14.3) Zakaria Bakkali profile aged 24 in the year 2020 Zakaria Bakkali career history until 2020 This FM 2014 Player Profile of Zakaria Bakkali shows a quick, skillful inside forward with great technical attributes. During our test save this kid missed out on 2 seasons of proper game time, so you should expect more than what the screenshots above show. Having said that Bakkali still developed 17 for dribbling, technique, off the ball movement, agility and pace. All those attributes show just how well he can move on the ball and the problems he could cause cutting inside from the left. £8.5 million isn't bad considering the kids talent. If you will invest the time in Bakkali's development the he's a must buy.

You need to be managing his individual training correctly ie switching form quickness to the most appropriate role etc and most importantly managing his game time well. I personally train in weak areas first then generalize to a role like for him inside forward. If he isn’t getting into your first team he needs to be out on loan though.

What countries and database size did you load, which team are you managing. How much have you been offering, how many times have you negotiated down from what they say is acceptable and have you been doing the ‘suggest’ trasfer or ‘make bid’ option?

I have chosen top divisions of England, Germany, Italy and Spain (also Championsip for England), have a large database. I am playing as Everton, and I’m at the start of August (very first season.) In my first bid suggestion I suggested 2.5M € up front and another 2.5M € on next 48 months. Their negotiation was “12.75M up front, 3M € over 12 months, 500k after 50 games, 5k per game for first 10 games, another 500k after 10 International games and 500k after first 10 games.” After two more negotiations I settled the price at 10M + bonuses I… Read more »

You need to be using the ‘make bid’ option, that negotiation was too short to get the best price. Warranted the asking price can’t always be as low as we suggest but it shouldn’t be that high. You will never get as good a price using the suggest option over the make bid option, it takes a lot longer but works best I found. And you do have to keep renegotiating the deal lower. Also worth mentioning that Bakkali may have flexible ability, meaning he can start the game with different attributes from save to save, not a huge difference… Read more »

It really does, just suggesting a bid will eventually lead to them turning you down and walking away, whereas when you make the bid its via fax so to speak so they will just keep coming back, at some point if you are to get the best price you will have to use ‘make bid’ as the other side will stop the negotiation while using suggest and you then have no option but to ‘make bid.’ The best way of describing it is that suggesting is doing things over the phone where they can hang up at any point. Making… Read more »

You’re half right, I was counting the first season as two, when he actually played for Jung and first team in one season. But I do count that season as a lack of first team football, so there’s two in my opinion.

He only played 6, the other six were for the Jung team, which is not what I call proper experience actually, not to mention almost all were sub appearances that season (to be fair you cant see that), but as I said, half right.

Just wondering, where do we post for screenshots and/or potential wonderkids, it’s just whenever i find a kid with potential i like to come here and check them out but i don’t like posting on a players profile to see if you have actually found them. The kid I want to ask about is Lucas Mugni by the way

Hey there, keep up the good work guys. I just wanted to know why I can’t find these players in my game. Is it because I’ve selected a large database but only one nation (England)? If it’s the database issue, then how do i rectify it?
Also, what’s the database you select?

I’m sorry I’ve inundated you with questions and this may not be the right place but any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Most of them should show with large database, most certainly this guy does. But there are some that won’t, we load England, Italy, France, Argentina, Brazil and Spain. You can’t make the database large once loaded but you can add and remove countries at the start of a season.

I don’t understand how james ward-prowse of Southampton doesn’t have a profile. He looks the next Gerrard or Lampard or Scholes. He is BEAST. People under-rate him and don’t understand he becomes one of the geniuses of FM 14.

Bakkali vs Fischer vs Mane vs Brandt? The best among this lot as a LW/LIF in the 4-3-3 control tactic. Already have Gerard D and Markovic for the RW/RIF as Boro roll into the Prem League in my 3rd season.

They are all quite different players some better physically some more technical and they will all vary from game to game. So it comes down to assessing them all in your game, maybe get scout reports from there.